The scene while waiting for Jeremiah Wright to speak at the National Press Club

WASHINGTON–The Rev. Jeremiah Wright will speak soon at the National Press Club. The ballroom is packed with people here for a black church conference, guests and reporters.

Here from Chicago: Wright’s wife and two of his daughters; Dr. Conrad Worrill, the National Chairman of the National Black United Front and Father Michael Pfleger, from St. Sabrina Church on Chicago’s South Side.

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